Moscow-based insurer VSK is partnering with car repair concierge ALFRED to allow car insurance customers to call an ALFRED driver to take their car to the repair shop.     Here’s How it...

Turns out, Stockholm-based If Insurance is the P&C insurer with the largest IT organization in the Nordic region.     Three things. One. It has a dedicated workforce of over 100 IT developers...

Zurich Seguros has held a day in Madrid with strategic brokers attended by more than 80 representatives of brokerages throughout the national territory. At a time of historical transformation of the...

Before:       After:   Reciproco was/is the trading name of Insurance4Good Ltd. It was established by Darren Munday (cofounder and CEO), Henok Yemane and Alessandro Linari that “set out to create a...

Meet Vertoe:     Think: a New York based luggage storage startup that was launched in May 2016. The Idea – a site that finds nearby locations for one to...

Arvato Financial Solutions announced its investment in SecuredTouch, an Israeli company established in 2014 that specializes in behavioral biometrics authentication for mobile devices. Its technical platform uses the interaction between...

New Delhi-based healthtech company Visit announced it has raised new funding from several investors including Twitter cofounder Biz Stone. The total amount raised is undisclosed.   Visit, established in 2015, is a...

Israeli insurer Migdal announced the launch of a new chatbot called “Butti” to help shoppers purchase travel insurance.     Limitations apply. Think: for customers under the age of 40 and...

Hanover announced it has expanded its commercial lines customer service center to service additional specialty coverages within management liability. Specifically: (1) directors and officers, (2) employment practices liability, (3) fiduciary liability, (4) fidelity and...

Under the category of ’emerging WC players’, have a look at Oyster:     According to its site, the Waltham, MA-based intermediary is offering WC coverage in NY and NJ, underwritten by Lancer...

Joslin Diabetes Center and American Well recently announced a collaboration to explore how to best use telemedicine to treat diabetes in the US – and eventually, around the world. Initially, American Well’s technology...

Athora Holding, a portfolio company of Apollo Global Management, has agreed to acquire Generali Belgium for a cash consideration of ~€540m ($668.5m).   “This deal underlines our continuing efforts to...

Roomi, a P2P marketplace for room rentals, sublets and roommates, recently announced a partnership with Lemonade to offer renters insurance. “Lemonade’s ability to make renters insurance so simple is exactly what the Roomi user is...

Citizens Property Insurance Corporation’s Board of Governors approved a slate of policy language changes that will protect consumers while addressing rising costs of non-weather water loss claims and related litigation...